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“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.”

Way Made Form Found Term Can Do Moral Principles Mankind Mouths Consequence Altruism Sanctions Egoism Collectivism Degenerates Hybrid Hedonism

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Enough Energy Causes Term Rights Feet Wind Mouths Give Me Presses Environmental Conservation Sailing Bragging Energy Conservation Wind Power Bragging Rights

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”

People Should Stories Eye Film Sound Term Justice Mouths Dialogue Visuals Film Directors Film Directing Directing Film

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.”

People Thinking Way Kind Able Grows Term Pieces Proud Mouths Complexes Depth Lovely Best Way Discovering Superficial Word Of Mouth

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.”

Knows Kind Bigs Kids Term Creative Fire Nice Type Quiet Mouths Setting Settings Going Out

Author:Iggy Pop

“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Littles Said Character Humanity Bits Term Little Bit Mouths Practicals Coming Out Adore Blah

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.”

Looks Hands Term Mouths Bigger Crisis Prepared Contracts Perpetual Minors Chasing Short Term Funding Organisation Civil Society Juggling Treadmills Bigger Picture

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

Should Littles Has Beens Ends Values Term Common Taste Mouths Agree Profound Neighbor Great Things Shed Abyss Refined Common Good Nuance Bad Taste

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated